JFORD1@UA1VM.BITNET (James Ford) (12/09/89)
Question 1: (PC) Some (all?) Seagate drives come with a program called DM. This program lets you set the partitions to whatever size, etc. It also includes an option to allow you to set a partition to "read-only". Would this be effective against any/some/all boot infectors, IBMBIOS, IBMDOS and COMMAND.COM infectors? How hard would it be to get around this program (DM)? Question 2: (all) Could the PC, MAC, or TI99/4A wizards post some of their methods of protecting their files/machines from infection(s)? Right now, I just use SCANRES, but have been thinking about spending the time to install some other (PC) programs (FluShot, Sentry, etc) on my machine. What would be the best combination? For those of you who are keeping records of various infections, the Jerusalem Virus version "B" was detected yesterday by SCAN V50. The machine infected was a PS/2 Model 50, located in the graduate students office. It was noticed when a grad student kept getting strange results when running Turbo Pascal (machine slowdown). The disks that have been in contact have been re-formatted (micros, that is) and the search is on for the disk that origionally brought it to the machine. James Ford - JFORD1@UA1VM.BITNET "Gee, a one-line tag..............."